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OP The Admiral has been tempted to borrow from a usurer, but a friend dissuades him and takes him to a lawyer, who says of the usurer
FOENUM HABET IN CORNU
Il a du foin aux cornes.
Dans les campagnes romaines, les bouviers avaient l'habitude d'entourer de foin les cornes des taureaux dangereux, non pour atténuer les coups qu'ils pouvaient porter, mais pour avertir de loin les passants. De là le proverbe : Il a du foin aux cornes. Horace (liv. I, sat. IV, v. 34) parle du poète satirique et s'écrie en plaisantant : « Romains, voilà l'homme dangereux, fuyez-le, fuyez ; il a du foin dans les cornes, prenez garde ! »
Roman farmers used to attach hay to tips of bulls' horns to warn that the bull was dangerous.
So the lawyer is telling the Admiral that the userer
showed signs of being dishonest.
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